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Deaths - In South Bristol, on the 23d
ult., Sally G., wife of E? E. LEWIS, aged 30 years.

Ontario Messenger, Canandaigua,
NY Sept 15, 1852 pg 3

Mortgage
Sale - Default having been made in the payment of the money secured by mortgage
executed by John SHAW of Bristol, Ontario Co., NY,
to Frederick BUHRE of Canandaigua, county
aforesaid, on the 27th day of November, 1851, and recorded in the Clerk's office
of Ontario County on the same day in liber 43 of mortgages at page 308, which
mortgage was duly assigned by said Frederick BUHRE,
and which there is claimed to be due on the day of the first publication of this
notice, the sum of $209.84. Now therefore, notice is hereby given that by virtue
of a power of sale contained in said mortgage, I shall foreclose the said
mortgage according to the statute in such case made and provided and shall sell
at public auction at the Court House in the village of Canandaigua on the 4th day
of November next at 1l o'clock in the forenoon of that day, the premises in the
mortgage described, viz: "all that tract of parcel of land situated in the
town of Bristol, county of Ontario, being part of lot number 39, bounded as
follows: viz: beginning on the North line of the highway leading westward from
Baptist Hill, so called, seven rods westerly from the center line of said lot,
being the center line of said; then westerly along the north line of said
highway six and a half rods a stake; thence easterly on a line parallel with
said highway nine rods and ten and a half links to lands of Stephen
FRANCIS; thence southerly along the west line of said land of Stephen
FRANCIS, six and a half rods to the beginning, containing 61 rods. The
above premises is the same conveyed by Harris ANDREWS
and wife, March 26, 1851". Dated August 19th, 1852 Frederick
BUHRE, Mortgage and Assign John CALLISTER,
Att'y.

The citizens of the neighboring town of Bristol were thrown
into a state of extraordinary excitement, on Monday, by the announcement
that the burial ground a short distance from Muttonville had been visited by
resurrectionist's. It appears that the grave in which were deposited the
remains of Mrs. Caleb Brockelbank, who died
some two weeks since at the residence of her husband in this village, had
been opened and the body taken out.

We are informed that indications were first observed about
the grave on Wednesday or Thursday of last week, exciting suspicions that it
had been disturbed. These suspicions being strengthened by other
circumstances within the knowledge of the friends of the deceased, finally
led to an examination and the discovery that the grave contained only an
empty coffin, and some pieces of the shroud, which had apparently been torn
from the body in getting it out of the coffin. A search for the missing
corpse was then commenced and actively prosecuted until a collection of
bones were found secreted near the burning springs, which were believed to
have been those for which the search was instituted.

Subsequent developments led to the arrest of a quack Doctor
named WEED, together with A.
R. Simmons and J. Judson H. Graves, both of whom we believe are
medical students. It became known to the authorities, through the
instrumentality of a member of the medical fraternity, who was called upon
to assist in the operation, that the parties named had some days previously
been engaged in dissecting a subject. This information, in connection with
the fact that some hair was found in the building where the operation was
performed, which closely resembled a sample from the head of Mrs.
Brockelbank with which it was compared, seemed to point to them as
the perpetrators of the crime in question.

They were accordingly taken before Justice Canfield and Kent
on Thursday, and waiving an examination, gave bonds in the sum of $500 each
for their appearance at the next Oyer and Terminer. The
offence for which they are thus held to answer is a serious one, and
punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or
in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding $500, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.

This sacrilegious outrage has excited the most intense
feeling among those living in the vicinity of its occurrence, and its
supposed authors are naturally subjected to the unmeasured, indignant
condemnation of the public, and especially of the parties more

immediately interested. Strenuous exertions will doubtless be
made to find evidence that will serve to convict them, and if they have

committed the offence alleged against them, they should
certainly be punished as the law directs. But while we have no disposition
to modify the abhorrence with which the outrage is so universally and so
justly regarded, nor in any degree to screen those who shall be proved
guilty from the consequences to admonish our readers of the injustice of prejudging
the case. We feel warranted in saying also that the hitherto unstained
character of at least one of the persons accused, should serve to shield him
from reproach until some positive testimony shall be adduced to prove his
guilt. Circumstantial evidence is always more or less unreliable, and should
be regarded with extreme caution. Hearsay evidence Madame Rumor's
unauthenticated reports, are still more unreliable, and should never be
suffered for a moment to overbear the weight of a previous good character.
It is to be hoped therefore that the public will be charitable enough and
just enough to suspend judgment in this case, until fully advised of the
facts.

The
citizens of the neighboring town of Bristol were thrown into a state of
extraordinary excitement, on Monday, by the announcement that the burial ground,
a short distance from Muttonville, had been visited by resurrectionists.
It appears to the grave in which were deposited the remains of Mrs.
Caleb BROCKLEBANK, who died some two weeks since at the residence of her
husband in this village, has been opened and the body taken out.

We were
informed that indications were first observed about the grave on Wednesday or
Thursday of last week, exciting suspicions that it had been disturbed.
These suspicions being strengthened by other circumstances within the knowledge
of the friends of the deceased, finally led to an examination and the discovery
that the grave contained only an empty coffin, and some pieces of the shroud,
which had apparently been torn from the body in getting it out of the
coffin. A search for the missing corpse was then commenced and actively
prosecuted until a collection of bones were found secreted near the
"burning springs," which were believed to have been those for which
the search was instituted.

Subsequent
developments let to the arrest of a quack Doctor named WEED,
together with A. R. SIMMONS and J. Judson H. GRAVES,
both of whom we believe are medical students. It became know to the
authorities, through the instrumentality of a member of the medical fraternity,
who was called upon to assist in the operation, that the parties named had some
days previously been engaged in dissecting a subject. This information in
connection with the fact that some hair was found in the building where the
operation was performed, which closely resembled a sample from the head of Mrs.
BRUCKLEBANK (sic) with which it was compared, seemed to point to them as
the perpetrators of the crime in question.

they were
accordingly taken before Justices CANFIELD and KENT on Thursday, and waving an examination,
gave bonds in the sum of $500 each for the appearance on the next Oyer and
Terminer.

The
offence for which they are thus held to answer is a serious one, and punishable
by imprisonment in the state prison, not exceeding five years, (cut off)

DIED - In Bristol, at her residence, on Thursday, 2d of August, 1860, Mrs.
Lucy Case, wife of the late Jonathan I. Case,
aged 83 years.

Mrs. Case was one of the first
settlers of the town of Bristol, having resided there over 60 years. She
raised a large family of children, and lived to see the fourth generation.
She was a consistent member of the Baptist Church, and was respected
and beloved by a wide circle of mourning friends.

In
pursuance and by virtue of a judgment of foreclosure and sale in the above
entitled action, recovered at a Special Term of the Supreme Court of the State
of New York, held at the Court House in the city of Rochester, Monroe County,
New York on the 24th day of December 1862, Hon. James C.
SMITH, Justice presiding, I, the undersigned referee, duly appointed by
the said Court for the purpose, shall expose for sale at public auction on the
7th day of February, 1863, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of that day, at the
Court House in the village of Canandaigua, in said
County.

All that
tract or parcel of land situate in the town of Bristol, County of Ontario, and
State of New York, and is part of Lots No. 2, 3 and 4 in said town, and bounded
as follows, viz: Beginning at the northeast corner of lands in said lot No. 2,
on the north line of said lot, deeded by Asa JONES
and wife, to Daniel TAYLOR by deed dated January 1,
1836, and recorded in Ontario County Clerks Office, in Book 63 of Deeds, at page
414, and running from thence south three and seven eights degrees west sixty
seven rods and eighteen links, thence south eighty five degrees east forty nine
rods to the highway formerly called the "Big Tree Road," thence north
fifty one and five eights degrees east ten rods, thence north sixty and one half
degrees east twelve rods east twelve rods, thence north seventy and one half
degrees east seventeen rods and four links to the town line between Bristol and
Canandaigua, thence shout three and three fourths degrees west along said town
line one hundred and ninety one rods and nine links, thence south four and one
half degrees west forty rods along the center of the highway leading to Bristol
Centre, thence south twenty six and one half degrees west twenty rods, thence
south thirty seven and three eights and three eights degrees west nine rods and
nine links, thence north eighty six degrees west one hundred and fifteen rods and
seven links to the center of the highway leading to East Hollow (so called),
thence along the center of said highway north twenty five and one fourth degrees
west twenty rods, thence north forty and one fourth degrees, west fifty seven
rods, thence north one half degree east eighty six rods and nine links, thence north
six and three eighths degrees eat ninety tow rods, thence north three and seven
eights degrees east seventy two rods and two links to the north line of said Lot
No. 2, thence along said line about seventy five rods to the place of beginning,
containing 306 acres and two rods of land, excepting therefrom, 57 acres deeded
by Daniel TAYLOR to Janna P. TAYLOR, to be taken
out of the northwest corner by deed dated January 5, 1858, and recorded in
Ontario County Clerk's office in Liber 110 of Deeds at page 8.

Also
about 40 acres of land situate in said town of Bristol, being parts of Lots 3
and 4, being the same premises deeded to Daniel TAYLOR
as follows, viz: Nineteen and three fourths acres by John
WILDER and wife, by deed dated October 4, 1819, and recorded in said
Clerk's office in Book of Deeds No. 34, at page 395; 23 acres by Elnathan
GOODING and wife by deed dated march 30, 1838, and recorded in said
Clerks' office in Book of Deeds No. 63, at page 416 and also one acre and ninety
two rods by deed of William T. CODDING, dated March
23, 1818, and recorded in Book of Deeds No. 30, at page 227, to which deed and
the records thereof reference may be had. Dated 31st of December,
1862 J. F. METCALF, Referee 36td,
E. G. LAPHAM, Pl'ff Att'y

Mr. EDITOR: A sad accident occurred on Wednesday
morning at the mill of S. A.
Codding, Esq., near Bristol Centre, whereby a little son of Carrie
C. and Henry M. Codding, aged about three years, was drowned. The
little innocent was undoubtedly near or at an opening in the
lower end of the flume that conducts the water that runs the mill. He must
have lost his balance and fell in.

His grandfather who is noted for the interest he takes in the
children, and for this one in particular, soon missed him, and calling to his
aid the father, search was made. His body was soon found in the flume, but not
until the spirit had fled to the embrace of HIM

who while on earth, took little children in arms and blessed
them, and said, "of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."

The funeral of little Stephen was
held on the following Friday, at the family residence,
when a discourse appropriate to the

occasion was delivered by Rev. Mr.
Yeomans, pastor of the Congregational church at Bristol, to a large
audience of friends and neighbors, who deeply sympathize with the relatives of
the deceased.
Bristol
Centre, Sept. 18, 1869

LEONARD - JONES
- On the morning of October 8,, 1863, at the residence of the bride's sister, in
Belding, Michigan, by the Rev. James L. PATTEN, of
Greensville, Michigan, Mr. Henry J. LEONARD, of
Belding and Miss Helen A. JONES, of Belding,
youngest daughter of the late Arunah JONES, of
Bristol, Ontario county, N.Y.

CASE - In Bristol
Center, on Monday evening, January 26th, 1873, (typo error/ s/b 1874)
after a short illness, Seymour W. Case, in the
61st year of his age. Funeral at the Universalist Church, Baptist
Hill, January 29th at 12 M.

+ Myron
COYE has moved from Centerfield to the James YOUNGS
house in South Bristol

+ Henry
CODDING of Bristol Center was badly bitten by a dog last week.

+ Mr.
John Harvey CRANDALL, who has been very sick with the rheumatic fever, is
gaining slowly

+ Miss
Alice B. CASE commenced teaching May 4th, two miles north of Geneseo.
This is her first experience teaching and we wish her success.

+ Stephen
SISSON whose health is very poor has gone to the Adirondack mountains, in
hopes he may be benefited by the air.

+ Miss
Mary ALLEN is on the sick list.

+ Mrs.
George TIFFANY who recently lost her husband, has a little four year old daughter
who is very sick. She has the greatest sympathy of many friends, and we
hope the child may soon recover. May 11th, 1885.

+ William
BENEDICT and family are occupying William DUNHAM'S
residence at Mayweed.

+ Miss
Carrie CARTWRIGHT'S school closed on Thursday of this week.

+ Mr.
Oscar SISSON, who is building a three story house, is relieved of his
carpenters for a short time, until the mason work is completed. The masons
will commence their labors this week. Mr. SISSON
has a very pleasant residence and very convenient. Hot and cold water may
be conducted to any room in the house.

+ A
cordial invitation is extended to all to attend the grand army picnic given the
21st inst., at Cheshire.

+ Mrs.
George TIFFANY'S little son, Levi, is very sick with typhoid fever.

+ Miss
Anna JOHNSON has been engaged to teach the school at Baptist Hill this
summer.

+ W.
M. BENEDICT will buy spring chickens weighing one and one fourth pounds,
at 25 cents each till June 15th.

+ Miss
Nellie JOHNSTON of Bristol, was married to James
PERRINE of Englishtown, NJ, Wednesday, the 17th inst.

+ Marion
BARRINGER has rented John SHAY'S house.

+ Edgar
THORP takes the place of N. C. WHEELER in
the store of Wheeler & Co. The latest from N. C.
WHEELER places him en route for Santa Fe, New Mexico. His many
friends here wish him success.

ONTARIO COUNTY TIMES Wednesday December 17, 1890 Pg
3, col 7

Joseph E. Fellows, prominent among
the older residents of the town of South Bristol, in
this county, died at his home in that town on Saturday last. He was
Supervisor of South Bristol in 1867, and was widely known and respected. He
was 71 years of age.

Mysterious Disappearance - Sixteen Year Old Boy
Wanders from Home in South Bristol

The
sixteen year old son of William WESLEY of South
Bristol, left his home Tuesday of last week, and nothing has been heard or seen
of him since. The boy was not bright, and there is no doubt that he simply
strayed.

When he
left home, he was clad, besides the ordinary garments, simply in a cap and a
blue frock. Unless he has somewhere found warm shelter and care, which
seems improbable, the boy must have perished soon after leaving the warmth of
his home.

Search
began soon after the boy's absence from home was discovered. As many as 70
men from the town were soon engaged in hunting through the entire
neighborhood. Telephone messages were being sent about the county.

The only
tracks discovered were those leading twice across what is called Mill creek, a
stream running near his home, and others leading to the barn of a
neighbor. The search continued eagerly till Saturday, when it was
evidently beyond hope, that the boy would be found alive, unless he had
somewhere found shelter in a home.

William
WESLEY, the boy's father, who says that his son would only have wandered
through lots, carefully avoiding the highway, believes that the boy must have
wandered into some gully, and there died of hunger and cold. Others
believe it probable that the boy has fallen into Mill creek at some point and
drowned. In either case, it is doubtful if the body will be discovered
until the present severe weather shall have passed away.

As an aid
to identification of the boy, in case he is not dead, but still wandering about
somewhere in the county, it is told that the boy, in addition to his imbecility,
walks with a stagger as though intoxicated.

During many years of suffering she was greatly sustained from above
as will best be shown by an extract from a letter written by

herself to other members of the "shut-in" Society,
and published in their little paper, The Open Window, in November, 1892:

"Eight years ago I was told by my physician that my
disease was incurable. Soon after the dear Lord, who had
kept me all the way

through, and led me to take him for my physician as well as
Savior, to do and suffer his sweet will. One of the precious lessons I have
learned of Jesus since He has called me aside is that our Heavenly Father will
not let anything reach His children that is not for their highest good.
However dark it may look to us, it is all clear to him. He showers down His
blessings without number, but trials and afflictions are weighed with
exactness and not one bit more is permitted to come to us than is necessary
for the needful work. When passing through the most extreme suffering, I just
rest trustingly in His arms, realizing that, although He leads me through the
furnace of affliction, He is only working out for me a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory."

The blessing it brings to trust Him wholly is more to me than perfect
health could be. When suffering most, the precious promises are brought so
forcibly to my mind, that I find it grand to look to Jesus."

+ Mrs.
Lucetta JACKSON, who has been seriously ill for the past month, is
slightly improved.

+ Miss
Sophia MC GREEVY has been re-engaged to teach the school at the Hill, Miss
Ella COTTER in District No. 4 and MissMabel
BLISS at Vincent.

+ Lester
JOHNSON will soon move in the Byron POOL
house; Wiliam KILLUPS in the house vacated by William
KETCHUM, who intends moving to Manchester where he takes a boarding
house. HOPPOUGH, of Hemlock Lake, goes on the
farm vacated by KILLUPPS. Edgar THORPE of
Allen's Hill, will occupy one of the Celia SIMMONS
houses and Thomas MEHAN, the other. James
PIERCE will move to East Bloomfield. Thomas
MC ILIVAIN will go on the Albert MATHER
place; Eugene WALES on the Frank
FITCH farm, which he has purchased; John WHEAT
on the farm vacated by WALES; Frank FAIRBAIRN of
Canandaigua, at William ANDREWS'.

+ George
SANDERS has moved on the CRONTLEY farm, in
the west part of the town.

+ Mrs.
C. L. HILLS spent a few days with friend in East Bloomfield last week.

+ Fred
WILSON has leased the meat market of J. Austin
ALLEN. He intends to move into Henry
CODDINGTON'S house.

+ J.
Austin ALLEN has purchased the Rowena CHILD'S
place and will occupy it soon.

+ Mrs.
Mark A. CASE and son, Seymour, have been
quite sick, but they are on the gain slowly.

In
Bristol:

+ Mr.
and Mrs. E. R. BRONSON, of Lima, were the guests of A.
C. HATHAWAY over Sunday.

+ Fred
NICHOLAS is treating his house to a coat of paint.

+ At the
annual meeting of the Evergreen Cemetery Association of Bristol, held March 31, Herman
L. LEE, Josephus WHEATON and W. Scott HICKS
were chosen trustees for three years. The offices of the Association are
as follows: Fred NICHOLAS, president; H.
L. LEE, vice president; W. Scott HICKS,
secretary; L. H. JONES, treasurer; and W.
Scott HICKS, superintendent. The Association has done a good work
and gives promise of still better things.

+
Bristol Center, Aug 14. - Saturday afternoon a family gathering was held at J.
H. DUNHAM's in honor of his mother, who is remarkably sprightly for a
woman of 86 years. Among those present were M. A.
CASE, W. WOOD, W. DUNHAM, D. TAYLOR, Frank HUBERT and J. H. DUNHAM, and
their wives, children and children in law; also these grand and great
grandchildren: E. MURRAY, wife and 3 daughters; A.
JOHNSON and daughter; George and S. W. CASE, Misses
Nettie PHILLIPS, Edna DUNHAM, Edith TAYLOR; also Mr. and Mrs. J. BYRAM,
parents of Mrs. J. H. DUNHAM. A very pleasant
time was spent in social intercourse, and S. W. CASE photographed
the company.

+ Miss
Edna CASTLE will teach our school next winter.

+ William
SMITH will begin hop picking next Thursday and M.
A. CASE, the 27th. Our valley will soon have plenty of marry hop
pickers.

+
Frank SISSON, who
had been making an extended visit here left on Wednesday for his home in Yates
Center, Kansas.

+ The Pupils of the "Hill School," under
the direction of their teacher, Harian FISHER, gave
a very enjoyable entertainment at E. K. Hall, Wednesday evening.

Bristol Center:

+
Frank RICH, of
Brockport is the guest of J. J. MALLERY, for a few
days.

+ The Ladies' Aid society of the M.E. church held a
Poverty social at the parsonage on Friday evening.

+
Charles LAKE, who
was recently married at Honeoye Falls, has rented the tenant house of
Mrs. E. H. ALLEN, and has begun housekeeping.

+ A social of the Zealous Workers, held at the
Congregational parsonage last Tuesday evening, was not largely attended, owing
to the conditions of the roads, but a very enjoyable time was had by those
present.

+
Cupid was quite successful
here last week, two marriages to report. Miss Carrie Allen TAYLOR
and William LUBBOCK, both of this place, were
married by Rev. S. Mills DAY, at Honeoye last
Wednesday, March 6. A very pretty and joyous wedding occurred at the
residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. P.
BLISS, Wednesday evening (cut off)

Contest Over a Will Destroyed by the Party Who
Made It
Another hearing in the WALDON will contest case has
been had before Surrogate D. G. LAPHAM and the
matter again adjourned until January 9th. Mr. WALDON
died in Bristol about a year ago, leaving an estate of almost $10,000. He destroyed
his will just before his death and his heirs applied for letters of administration.
R. M. LEE, the executor named in the destroyed will, contested
this on the ground that when WALDON destroyed the
same he was not of sound mind, and therefore incompetent to do it legally.
J. A. HOBSON and N. M. CLEMENT represent Mr.
LEE's interests and Hon. Edwin HICKS and E. M.
MORAN are
conducting the contest.

BRISTOL SPRINGS - Mrs.
Esther Fellows, widow of the late Jos. E.
Fellows, died on Tuesday, the 8th inst., from the
effects of an apoplectic stroke on Sunday.

Mrs. Fellows had suffered a slight
shock before this one and did not regain consciousness
after the last stroke before her death. Her age was 78 years, and hers, like
the lives of most people of her age in this region, had been a life of patient
toil and constant care for those around her.
She had been a consistent member of the Presbyterian church at Naples,
for many years.

She leaves two sons and several brothers and sisters to mourn
her departure.

+
On July 24th occurred the death of Mrs. Louisa B. HICKS,
widow of the late F. J. HICKS, aged 79 years.
Mrs. HICKS was a woman of great individuality and
energy of character and her influence was felt in every circle in which she
moved. She had no children, and death came to her as a welcome release
from her loneliness. The esteem in which she was held by her friends and
neighbors was manifested by the large attendance at the funereal, which was held
in the Universalist Church on July 26. Rev. S. M.
DAY of Honeoye, conducted the service.

+ Misses
Bertha and Marie WHEATON and Earl JOHNSON of Canandaigua were the guests
of Jessie NICHOLAS, last Wednesday.